(^59) The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of
Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his
reign. And this Seraiah was a quiet prince.^60 So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should
come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.^61 And Jeremiah said
to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words;^62 Then
shalt thou say, O LORD, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in
it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.^63 And it shall be, when thou hast
made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of
Euphrates:^64 And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I
will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
CHAPTER 52
Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in
Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.^2 And he did
that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.^3 For through
the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his
presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
(^4) And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the
month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and
pitched against it, and built forts against it round about.^5 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh
year of king Zedekiah.^6 And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was
sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.^7 Then the city was broken
up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate
between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city round
about:) and they went by the way of the plain.
(^8) But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of
Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.^9 Then they took the king, and carried him up
unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him.
(^10) And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes
of Judah in Riblah.^11 Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him
in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.
(^12) Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, which served the king
of Babylon, into Jerusalem,^13 And burned the house of the LORD, and the king’s house; and all the
houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire:^14 And all the army
of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem
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